The Maid of Brakel

A girl from Brakel once went to St. Anne’s Chapel at the foot of the Hinnenberg, and as she wanted to have a husband, and thought there was no one else in the chapel, she sang,

“Oh, holy Saint Anne!

Help me soon to a man.

Thou know’st him right well,

By Suttmer gate does he dwell,

His hair it is golden,

Thou know’st him right well.”

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